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package org.springframework.http.client;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;

import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;

/**
 * Factory for {@link AsyncClientHttpRequest} objects.
 * Requests are created by the {@link #createAsyncRequest(URI, HttpMethod)} method.
 *
 * @author Arjen Poutsma
 * @since 4.0
 * @deprecated as of Spring 5.0, in favor of {@link org.springframework.http.client.reactive.ClientHttpConnector}
 */
@Deprecated
public interface AsyncClientHttpRequestFactory {

    /**
     * Create a new asynchronous {@link AsyncClientHttpRequest} for the specified URI
     * and HTTP method.
     * <p>The returned request can be written to, and then executed by calling
     * {@link AsyncClientHttpRequest#executeAsync()}.
     *
     * @param uri        the URI to create a request for
     * @param httpMethod the HTTP method to execute
     * @return the created request
     * @throws IOException in case of I/O errors
     */
    AsyncClientHttpRequest createAsyncRequest(URI uri, HttpMethod httpMethod) throws IOException;

}
